EU court backs 'right to be forgotten' in Google case

[dead0man]

BBC link

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I agree with Google, this is unworkable, will no doubt be abused (mostly by the wealthy) and just seems silly to this American.  So if somebody takes a picture of you doing something stupid, you can ask the court to have Google remove the picture from their searches, because it would be illegal to ask the person that took the picture to remove it....yeah, makes no sense.


(curious to see who and how this is defended)

[dead0man]

None of our Euros have an opinion on this?  Perhaps you're appropriately embarrassed?

[dead0man]

None of our Euros have an opinion on this?  Perhaps you're appropriately embarrassed?

You know I find your Stockholm Syndrome toward BB fascinating.

I have no idea what this means.

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You are correct on all counts.  It is way to easy to sue in the US and this will only be used/abused by the wealthy.  Hopefully anyone (else*) that tries will have the Striesand effect happen to them.


*Google Mario Costeja González


This isn't a win for "privacy".

[dead0man]

Except now a LOT more people know about his embarrassing past and will still know it if they search Google.  What exactly did he accomplish?

[dead0man]

He accomplished a bad law, he didn't accomplish his goal of having his embarrassing past erased.

[dead0man]

You don't think the same thing is going to happen every time a rich guy tries to get a link removed from every search engine in the world?

[dead0man]

You don't think the same thing is going to happen every time a rich guy tries to get a link removed from every search engine in the world?

Why do you presume this is only available to rich people? The media reports suggest there are many applicants already. Surely they won't all result in their cases being highlighted - I'm presuming they'll get some safety in numbers.

I'm not the only one that thinks that way.

As for this case it's not a big deal. You more or less have to sue search engines for them to remove these information, and there they major difference between USA and most of the rest of the World in. Outside USA it's a major investment to sue someone, the compensation when you sue are smaller, so it's very rare to see a lawyer willing to sue against getting part of the compensation, so this is expensive for the plaintiff, so this are unlikely to be very expensive for Search Engines.

[dead0man]

Now they want to enforce this stupidity world wide

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